Writing in Snow

Fast Day 9 Poem and Gratitude List

Jamál (Beauty), 9 ‘Alá’ (Loftiness) 175 B.E. - Sunday, March 10, 2019

Sunday Poem1

Sunday afternoon
A beautiful cloudy day
For writing poems

Gratitude List For 9 ‘Alá’

Today I am thankful ...
          ...that my Bank of America Checking account is not overdrawn today .
          ...for fresh brewed black coffee on this late winter morning.
          ...that I finished reading the article How to Focus Our Energy on the Stuff That Matters   by Jaellayna Palmer.
          ...for the banana I had to go with my morning coffee.
          ...that I have 308 points in my Survey Junkies account.
          ...for the egg salad sandwich I had for brunch.
          ...that I was able to begin the sixth poem in the two-hundred I am writing to celebrate the Bicentenary of the Birth of the Bab today, the working title of the poem is "Invocation to the Bab".
          ...for the peanut butter cups I have for my evening snack.
          ...that I have 446,618 GPs in my Gift Points account.

Footnotes
1  I posted this on Poet 999 - A Butterfly Emerges From Her Cocoon https://poet999.blogspot.com/2019/03/sunday-poem.html.